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Charlotte, NC, US

Los Angeles, California, US

We are the leading boutique consumer-focused retained executive search firm, working across consumer tech, fashion & apparel, food & beverage, lifestyle brands, CPG, omni-channel retail, vertically native digital brand/pure e-commerce, entertainment, media & content and digitally-enabled consumer services. Clients have included: Red Bull, Mattel, Disney.

US

• Walker Talent Group is a global firm focusing on talent acquisition transformation, executive turnarounds, and human capital consulting.
• Responsible for overall engagement leadership with clients – including the management of Walker Talent Group employees, all executive-level search at client and talent acquisition strategy and implementation using both.
• Led a 2+ year engagement with a $1 Billion mobile company to develop and direct global talent acquisition strategies, talent needs analysis, for both executive and rank and file recruiting efforts.
• Recruited CXO-level executives from premier companies, including Google, Apple and Microsoft, which led to the successful turnaround and eventual acquisition of Palm by HP.
• Responsible for recruiting, mentoring, and retaining top-tier recruiting professionals who help drive the overall success of the talent acquisition strategy within our client engagements.
• Recommended and implemented processes across client organizations to onboard new employees and ensure appropriate partnership with line managers.

Worldwide, OO

• The ERS division is a global group within the Deloitte brand focused on helping boards and senior executives better manage enterprise risks through a deep analysis of areas of operational improvement.
• Managed over 20,000 hours of client service work annually, to assess corporate risk, fraud and business processes, within high technology and manufacturing industries.
• Lead multi-million dollar audit engagements, including the identification of key enterprise risks, gap analysis, supervision and review of fieldwork deliverables, and issuance of internal audit reports to executive.
• Interfaced regularly with client Senior Management and Board of Directors regarding engagement status, findings and recommendations.
• Assisted clients with business process reengineering and the evaluation of policies and procedures, as well as compliance, for operational and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) purposes.
• Performed integrated business system reviews, including pre- and post implementation reviews, focusing on security and controls.

Pittsford, NY, US

• Volt is a $2B global company – VoltDelta is a division that delivers interactive voice response, speech automation and call management to wireless carriers and phone companies globally.
• Led global organization to the successful completion of ISO 9001:2000 and TL 9000 certification.
• Quantified cost savings of $2 million through the facilitation of new software process development and business process reengineering.
• Analyzed and implemented “Best Practices” from other telecommunications organizations through the participation in industry workgroups.
• Established an internal audit program to monitor organization compliance to ISO/TL 9000 quality standards.
• Developed, evaluated and monitored process performance metrics by establishing baselines and identifying areas for corrective action and continuous improvement opportunities.

• Go2 was a 150-person venture capital-backed startup focused on mobile location-based services, including search and location-based mobile commerce transactions.
• Designed user requirements and technical specifications for next-generation mobile services and oversaw those projects from conception to implementation.
• Authored product requirement documents that created functionality which led to a “#1 Wireless Portal” ranking by the Yankee Group.
• Conducted SWOT Analysis to ensure that our products continued to exceed industry expectations and to determine the strengths and weaknesses.
• Negotiated deal terms and drove contract process for partnerships to ensure a fit with current business needs and user requirements.
• Managed technical requirements with content providers, technology partners and customers including developing demos for pre-sales support, proposal development and RFI response.

Tysons Corner, VA, US

• MicroStrategy delivers data warehousing and business intelligence solutions to Fortune 500 companies.
• Led Database team on a $15 million project to build a pioneering financial alerts and services application to customers of Ameritrade.
• Developed a data transformation application to load, scrub and analyze large amounts of data on a daily basis to facilitate wireless stock trading.
• Developed implementation plan and deployed MicroStrategy’s Data Warehousing and eCRM tools with multiple Fortune 100 companies.
• Analyzed high-level requirements of clients and recommended Business Intelligence solutions to Senior Management Teams.
• Exceeded personal consulting revenue goals by 200% which contributed to record-breaking revenue for the West Coast Region

Boston, MA, US

• Worked within the Lighting and Distribution divisions of GE, which manufactured and distributed lighting and electrical products throughout the world.
• Completed GE Corporate Leadership Development Training Program.
• Selected into a 2 year General Electric Corporate Management Training program (DSP). This program is an 18-24 month program providing a unique hands-on opportunity to develop quality professionals through a series of 3.
• Assignments included: sales, sourcing, inventory, operations and Six Sigma quality.
• Exceeded software sales goal of $9 million per year in selling and deploying automated inventory management systems to Fortune 500 Industrial companies.
• Trained and Black Belt certified in Six Sigma Quality.

Mba, Finance

Ba, Economics

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